Opportunities For Alumni

The TOP Alumni are the educators that have and continue to sustain the program for over 20 years. We seek to support TOP Alumni in their continued pursuit to educate about contemporary Germany as workshop leaders, lesson authors, and as creative project leaders in their school, district, and community.

MINI GRANTS FOR ALUMNI
TOP FELLOWS OF THE YEAR
TOP ALUMNI NETWORK

MINI GRANTS FOR TOP ALUMNI

In the spirit of continuing the dialogue on modern Germany and increasing global competency in North American classrooms, TOP offers its Alumni funding for class, club, and school-wide projects related to current issues in Germany.

The purpose of this Mini-Grant is to support a class, club, or school-wide project that encourages students to learn about, research, experience, and discuss current issues using Germany as a case study.

THE TOP FELLOW OF THE YEAR AWARD

Since 2005, TOP has annually presented its “TOP Fellow of the Year” award to the one educator from its entire Alumni Network who satisfies the following criteria:

Quality and quantity of in-service training workshops led,
Quality of written unit(s) of learning,
Personal qualities, such as enthusiasm for teaching about contemporary Germany, leadership displayed during and after the study tour, and a desire to collaborate with other educators to strengthen German-North American relations in the classroom, school, district, and beyond.